On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:50 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 20:46 +0530, Ramu wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > Was perusing the latest HEAD for integrating a VPN service with NM, > > Noticed that as of now, there is just a provision of spawning one > > auth-dialog for getting authentication credentials. > > Interesting - what kind of VPN software?
any vpn software, for that matter, cisco itself does support variety of authentication methods like certificate-based authentication, pre-shared key etc.. > > > But has the list explored the possibilities of having different modes of > > authentication while connecting to a VPN gateway (For instance > > authenticating with cisco using certificate mode and/or by using Group > > authentication) ? > > > > In that case one may require to have provision to provide multiple > > auth-dialog boxes in nm-<vpnname>-service.name and to spawn an > > appropriate auth-dialog depending on the authentication method chosen. > > Why wouldn't you just use a single program here that looks up the auth > method that you stored in gconf under vpn_data? Then it does "the right > thing" according to what auth method it finds. Did think about it too. My only concern was that, as different modes of authentication may require different number of "passwords" my auth-dialog wud be cumbersome. But agreed, only one auth-dialog would do the trick as i would be able to get the mode of auth from vpn_name and vpn_service. > > Cheers, > David > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
